I came across this on The Consumerist today.
WTF? Surely there had to have been a better way to address a high server load than manually gating clients to only let X number check-out at once.
I came across this on The Consumerist today.
WTF? Surely there had to have been a better way to address a high server load than manually gating clients to only let X number check-out at once.
Cat macros used to be funny, back when they didn't have to have atrocious "i can has cheezburger" grammar as a prerequisite.
I never knew that the concept of "failing gracefully" was so alien to some developers. Didn't receive exactly what you expected? CRASH THE WHOLE PROGRAM!
I personally like the amazing savings shown on the ad:
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These kinds of cases always involve the person suing for emotional distress because they "couldn't sleep at night" and "suffered detriments to the quality of their personal, social, and professional lives."
In other words, yeah, she's making a huge deal over nothing on purpose because she wants free money. Throw out her case and make her pay the court costs IMO.
Six sharps annoys the heck out of me. Six flats at least seems a little easier to deal with (at least the way my brain works) but anything over 5 sharps and I just burn the sheet music.
And yeah, as other people have said, it's the key of F-pound :s
@bstorer said:
Not to mention that the text above the drop down appears to be Portuguese, which, as we all know, is commonly spoken in the UK, Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden. I'm pretty sure it's, like, the most common language in all those countries.
I hear there's also this "Portugal" country that somewhat uses the language.
@Carnildo said:
@lanzz said:i've seen registration forms that require retyping of both password and e-mail address, with all fields readable (including both password fields).Makes sense. If they require email activation, then typoing the address makes your registration useless. You aren't likely to make teh same typo twice in a row, so requiring a re-type will greatly reduce the number of failed registrations.
I hope you don't have a row for former president Harry S Truman in your database. He doesn't get a period either.
@chrismcb said:
I once worked in a small shop that was using DBase. It was buggy and slow, so I wrote my own database. I had a few bugs in it, but it was several magnitudes faster, and as far as the company was concerned it was free.
Not to disparage your (possibly quite high-quality) database, but employers using homegrown things like "Bob's custom database software" have led to so many heinous WTFs on this site that it defies description (think: The Customer Friendly System). I trust that by "a few bugs" that you mean it wasn't quite so WTFish? :P
We block out swears using our patented Swearbottm, which turns naughty words into famous poets. We think it lends a touch of class.
More like a touch of Clbutt.
@fennec said:
@KluZz said:<FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">purely out of interest, do you guys know what a honeypot system is? :)Ooh, look. A shiny <font>. cute. :)
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There was that one person -- still may be around, actually -- that would embiggen and bold the first letter of all of his/her posts, in what I suppose was intended to be "ye olde manuscript" style.
@JamesKilton said:
I love these filters that work on parts of words as well. Blizzard has a wonderful filter for their World of Warcraft forums which includes words like rape (how this fits in with the normal curse words is beyond me). So you get g&*@! (grape), and it can make posts very hard to read.
Even better was when the name of a particular piece of equipment (the Bonescraper, I think?) fell under that rule. Whenever discussion steered towards that item, things got really hard to understand.
Okay, I'm fine with the gradually-widening definition of what constitutes a "WTF" on this forum, but this is getting a little ridiculous.
@Everett said:
Observation of the jewish tradition of not working on the sabbath.
Why not just have web requests forwarded to an e-mail address, database, file, or other similar location rather than outright DISABLING THE FORM during those hours? Surely that's an inconvenience to all of the shop's non-Jewish users out there.
@Gsquared said:
numbers for thousands of years. There are documents from ancient Rome where January was I, February II, March III, etc. Very simply put, the months after August are named after the number the had in the pre-Julian calendar. (September is named after "septus", Latin for "seven", because it was the 7th month till the advent of the Julian calendar. October, November and December are, in the same manner, named after the numbers 8, 9 and 10.) So, stating that, "months didn't necessarily have an official numbering before data science," is not accurate.The person who made the arbitrary decision to number January as 0, etc., obviously suffers from spending WAY too much time communicating with computers and is extremely disconnected from all forms of human communication and thought. Also, because of the base definition of the number 0, obviously doesn't understand the purpose of 0 in mathematics. It's an ignorant decision, badly made.
You said it all so I don't have to. Thanks. :D
The names of the latter months are all based directly off of their original numbered order, so to argue that the notion of assigning numbers to calendar months is a recent convention is pretty ignorant.
@mrsticks1982 said:
Outuput from sample: -47Module Module1
Sub Main()
Console.WriteLine(CInt(DateDiff(DateInterval.Year, DateTime.Now, DateTime.Parse("06/15/1960"), , )))
Console.ReadLine()
End Sub
End Module
Ahhh...there it is. :D
@Licky Lindsay said:
@Saladin said:(and the theoretical loss of precision from converting long -> int)Wouldn't you need to have patients older than MAXINT years before this became a problem?
Yeah, that's why I said "theoretical" loss of precision :P
Aside from the possibility that the calculation may be off by a year in either direction (and the theoretical loss of precision from converting long -> int), what should we be seeing here?
Granted, even just those two things should be unacceptable in a "mission critical" app for a healthcare provider.
@ender said:
A long time ago I sent 10 CDs to a friend in the USA. He told me he got 1 CD almost complete, everything else was shattered (the CDs were sent in a cushioned envelope in 5 thin cases - 2 CDs per case).
Slimline CD jewel cases that probably aren't suitable for shipping anything in and offer no protection to the CDs whatsoever? Check.
Cramming two CDs into each one of said slimline cases, making it even more likely that they'll get damaged? Check. (Unless you're talking about one of the soft plastic two-CD cases and not just having crammed two CDs into a thin single-CD case.)
Thin bubble mailer that offers relatively little protection against serious shocks or pressure? Check.
Taking five of said cases and stacking them all together in said envelope, virtually guaranteeing damage to most or all of the CDs contained therein? Check.
Yeah, the postal service sure is at fault there...
@djork said:
* There is only one concrete class that implements IFarm (as is the case with most interfaces in our framework)
WTF? Why even have an interface then? O_o
Bwahaha, very creative.
Also, that description could probably use some work, in my opinion. If I'm looking at the product page for a PS3, the last thing I probably care about would be that the processor was jointly devleoped by IBM or that the XDR memory was developed by Rambus.
I noticed that big in the article too and I was wondering if it was just me that was confused by it.
Before Google Maps, the Internet world was a flat place without [...] online mailboxes that looked like their desktop counterparts.
@CDarklock said:
@aikii said:Do most devotees use XP ?I would guess that most christians use Windows, because - like christianity - it is an easy, popular choice that only has major problems if you're smart.
So the average christian never has problems with it...
I would think that they would use Linux, given that it allows them to have an air of superiority over all of the heathens.
I kid...sort of.
At least your mistakes haven't made national news.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/03/20/lost.data.ap/index.html
"While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account -- one of Alaska residents' biggest perks -- and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well. There was still hope, until the department discovered its third line of defense had failed: backup tapes were unreadable."
The department is partly at fault for not verifying their backups often enough, but that doesn't save this guy from the embarassment of being partly responsible for kicking off something this huge.
@db2 said:
I think it's time to cut down once you start causing weird integer overflow bugs.
I was going to make the same joke. I think you ought to take it as a sign when you drink enough caffeine to get integer overflows when you try to summate it.
@morry said:
I work with IBM 370 (mainframe) assembler
Heh. I just started teaching myself assembler (on Linux) for fun, and it's very interesting so far but it's nice to be able to tell myself "well, at least I don't have it as bad as those guys who program on 16-bit or older systems." At least I don't have to worry about low/high partitions and segment registers, I tell myself. Then I cry anyway because I never knew how good I had it with HLLs :P
That would have to be one serious software problem for the user to not be able to physically move the mouse around on the desk.
The crop tool is a GREAT invention. Use it. :)
Anyhow, only being able to burn a RECOVERY disk once? WTF?
Next, we'll see:
"The Windows password you entered is incorrect. Now logging you in as Administrator so you can reset your password..."
@asuffield said:
Sudoku is the realm of the mentally limited. It's really really easy when you know how to do it (just mechanically and mindlessly apply half a dozen rules) and you can write a program to solve them in under half an hour.
Solving Rubik's cubes without a blindfold is the realm of the mentally limited. Any halfway intelligent person should be able to visualize the cube and track the movement of each surface square in his mind. You can write a program to solve them in minutes, so solving one while blindfolded should be trivial.
You're not one of those small-brained 'visual-solvers', are you?
@Albatross said:
Anyway, down below (in the USA) "biscuit" is usually used to mean "scone" or "cracker", not "cookie", although it can be used both ways.
Typical Southern USA "biscuit" that most people use the term for:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscuit (scroll down past the main section)
A chemically-leavened roll, more or less. The article above likens American biscuits to conventional scones, but they seem worlds apart to me.
@vt_mruhlin said:
Am I the only one who despises tag clouds to begin with? More of an eyesore than an easy navigation feature.
Me too. I haven't once actually been glad that a tag cloud was present on a site that I've visited. They just get in the way and if I'm going to search for something, it's generally not by clicking on a tag and then sifting through all of the results.
Full-time programmer now, though throughout high school and college I did several years of the indentured IT "remove the spyware from this machine, then make sure it works on the network" slave stuff.
The smell on those sorts of chain smokers' PCs is the worst part. There have been computers that I've worked on that I've literally had to open a nearby window to tolerate. A clothespin to the nose or copious amounts of air freshener were also sometimes called for.
I've once seen a person's heatsinkless Duron somehow running stable at a toasty 212 F (100 C) but I can't even begin to imagine 183 C.
Damaged temperature sensors is perhaps a more likely scenario but it's a funny thought nonetheless.
@valerion said:
@Cap'n Steve said:For what it's worth, I've never seen a secret question system that did anything besides email you your password.That's the biggest WTF. Your password should NEVER be stored in either a readable format, or in a way that it can be decrypted.
If I had a nickel for every web site or message board that e-mailed me my password in plaintext after registration...
On topic, I saw this context ad on Gmail today:
[img]http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/3995/neg75dz0.png[/img]
Yeah, but Mr. <%user.FirstName%> Smith is going to be thrilled to see that the mass marketers are actually getting his name right.
@wk633 said:
Kind of like the laser printer which prints out a description of various error conditions. Like: "Out of paper" (which is always the first page printed when you load new paper...)Can't remember which printer that was, but it was in the late 80s.
I've heard stories of an ISP in the early-mid 90's that required all new customers to fill out an online form and download the setup software from their web site. This was back in the days when not everyone had a friend with internet access, there weren't really any cybercafes, and people could rarely use the Internet at work, especially for personal use.
To be honest, you can just say "MySpace. WTF." and we can probably fill in the blanks for ourselves.
I don't even use MySpace but I know enough about the average people who do to be able to preemptively give any MySpace story a WTF tag. Obnoxious embedded music, red text on a light-red background (or a tiled background photo), people with 1000+ "friends" (how many of those do you actually know, really?) and stupid memes have made me hate every single misdirected visit to someone's MySpace that I've had the misfortune to experience.
@bstorer said:
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Now you can look like a carhop attendant for [url=http://www.sonicdrivein.com]Sonic[/url] wherever you go! Brilliant.
FrontPage really ought to make a hand pop out of the back of the user's computer to slap them whenever they select Comic Sans.
@RayS said:
@Saladin said:If by "too closely" you mean "the first 5 characters" then yes.@Kyanar said:
Actually, it's not even HTML. That beast is XML with a custom DTD.I guess that's what I get for not looking too closely at it.
...Anyway. :P
@Kyanar said:
Actually, it's not even HTML. That beast is XML with a custom DTD.
I guess that's what I get for not looking too closely at it.
Doesn't look like a warning tag to me -- it looks like an inventory control tag. The sole purpose of that tag is to allow the screw to be easily tracked and scanned via the barcode on the tag there. Once they ship it out, the tag's meaning becomes pointless so you can remove it.
Nice wooden table though. :D
@Pap said:
Actually, you're all still wrong.
It would be 56000 bits per second, not 56Kb (57344 bits) because they marketed the modems the same way they market hard disks (e.g., 80gig HDD = ~74GB). Giving us (10 MB) over (56 000 (bits per second)) = 24.9660952 minutes.
Oh, come on. That's just semantics, like calling someone out who (for the purposes of estimation) rounded off a megabyte to 1000 KB instead of 1024. It's far easier to say "56k" than "56,000 bits." But I'm sure that you were just nitpicking :P
@shadowman said:
I think it's the lowercase 'k'. Use KB for Kilobytes.
It's not kilobytes, though, it's kilobits. Should he use "kb"?